@@saraivatoledo1842 RSH is not entirely sober either, judging by his loopy smile after her phone call. I can't blame them, considering how boring those moments backstage in between soundchecks and setup can be. Gotta do something for fun! :)
@@Jaysthename RSH sober with what I now know is his Gf in that state in front of him ? I personally never managed, neither have I seen a functional couple where one is an active addict and the other is clean. The dissonance is just through the roof , unbearable that is ...
@@saraivatoledo1842 I don't think RSH ever tried to go sober, even after the diagnosis of the liver disease which ultimately killed him. What I meant was that while Gen (his partner) was obviously under the influence of something here, I'm fairly sure that RSH was too, even if wasn't quite as high nor quite as obvious about it as she was. My guess is that this was how they chose to live their lives, both individually and as a couple.
I love how he starts out as one might think to be bumbling idiot and ends out proving that over a ten minute period and it somewhat detracts from the genius guitarist and songwriter. Heroin and women ruin everything
I had one of the original ones , back in the 80's . Those boffins buy em for shit tonnes of spondooleez . Been watching The Sopranos , fuck You look like the Lawyer .
@@brettsamuels3669 i never watched it. This fandoogled version has the 'standard' sound like the one you and every other dude with an electric guitar had in the 80s and the new 'classic' which boosts it and gives it more chicken soup
@@SNAFU78 ..as i wrote i believe he was a wonderful man with a wonderful soul, authentic and unique in his talent, but i believe a great part of his life was very unhappy...he has unfortunately not conquered his addiction for good and struggled lifelong with this. he also came not throught as much as he should have..it was him, who had the seeds of a genius in him..not nick cave or any of the others. he was the special one.
i love how they have no idea or care who mogwai are. scottish? who? AHAHAHAHAHAHA This is unbelievable. He's one of the best guitarists of all time. It's so cruel that he died when everything had fallen into place
Thank you Dave, Aaron, Brett and Haidi for the opportunity to reminisce. I particularly liked listening to Haidi's voice. I took a patrol with about 150 carriers from Kerema to Kanobea in 1967 and stayed with Fr Besson for a while. Despite his frugal supplies Fr. Besson was a great host. At the time Fr. Besson's mission was constructed like an American frontier fort. At the end of each day it was Fr. Besson's ritual to call in his pet bush pig Merapo for safety from the countryside and close the fort doors. At which time the arrows would come raining in, sticking into the doors. According to Fr. Besson it was a friendly reminder of whose land we were in.
One of the great music documentaries. And Roland's penetrating comment sums it all up: "I don't understand how the dust gets all over everything." What more needs to be said?
+EigeDequei Z. It's interesting how many Aussie guitarists played the Fender jags, from Rowland to Go Betweens, to Triffids, to Midnight oil, the Church and my mate Charlie from Grong Grong who had a wicked sounding 1960s black Fender Jag. I think Rowland was a major influence on these fellas playing Jags,
Yuval Legendtofski Yeah, Charlie was definitely influenced by Rowland. I remember when we would go and see the Birthday Party when they first started coming to Adelaide and most of the crowd would be fixated on Cave and his antics, but Charlie be watching Rowland the entire gig
Cris Z. Mm Mmm...you're right. I love that he said he'd had it since 1978. Y'know, that line of yours sounds a bit like a Laurie Styvers lyric: "Heavenly Jag,/Let me play with you..." (if you don't know what I"m on about, click here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KA4UOAAxv8o.html). I've just been listening to Styvers's "Heavenly Band" and thinking about Rowland (although I know, of course, that Laurie Styvers and Rowland S. Howard never had anything whatsoever to do with each other), just because "Heavenly Band" is a love song to a musician, and Rowland was one of the most lovable and loved rock musicians who ever was. All his friends adored him. Some days I think that, right after Rowland's death, Jonnine Standish or Lydia Lunch or Genevieve McGuckin should have covered "Heavenly Band" as a memorial to Rowland.
